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Subject: Re: Visible TO address for users
From: Jeff Wasilko <jeffw @ smoe . org>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 11:42:00 -0500
To: Frank Bax <fbax @ sympatico . ca>
Cc: Majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <3.0.6.32.20020221193237.02117e90@pop6.sympatico.ca>; from "Frank Bax" on Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:32:37PM -0500
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On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 07:32:37PM -0500, Frank Bax wrote:
> At 10:57 AM 2/21/02 -0500, Jeff Wasilko wrote:
> >On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 11:08:02AM -0000, Jakob Siguršsson wrote:
> >> Never the less, does anyone know how I can fix this ? Ie. not send all the
> >> emails to isl.is users in one envelope to mx1.isl.is ?
> >
> >If you upgrade to sendmail 8.12.2, you can set the max # of
> >recipients on a per domain.
> >
> >In earlier versions, you could add r=50 or r=30 to your mailer
> >definitions to limit all envelopes to that size.
> 
> Jeff:  This is very interesting!  What is the best way to determine the
> max# setting for each domain (besides trial and error)?  We only hit the
> 'too many recipients' problem for the first on our last mailing.  Time to
> upgrade.

I'd have to say trial and error. I found mention of problems at
AOL with large #s of recipients, so I throttled them 15 and left
everyone else at 32. 

For speed (more parallel deliveries), I have the default outgoing
queue (called remote) set to only 5 recipients per envelope.

-jeff



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